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Weekly Highlights in Manitoba

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Winnipeg Improv Festival's 25th
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Winnipeg Improv Festival's 25th

The Winnipeg Improv Festival marks its 25th edition with four nights of shows at the Gas Station Arts Centre, October 21 to 24, 2026.

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Kinusaiga Skull Workshop at The
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Kinusaiga Skull Workshop at The

Cartizan Studio at The Forks hosts a Kinusaiga Skull Workshop on October 24, 2026, turning Japanese fabric-inlay art into no-sew Halloween decor.

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Potato Giveaway: 75
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Potato Giveaway: 75

Portage la Prairie's 10th annual potato giveaway returns to the Prairie Alliance Church parking lot on Oct. 24, 2026, with about 75,000 pounds of potatoes and vegetables free for the taking.

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CaRaVaN Open Mic at the
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

CaRaVaN Open Mic at the

CaRaVaN's free, all-ages open mic and open stage sets up on Graham Avenue in downtown Winnipeg on Monday, Oct. 19, 2026 — no tickets, no auditions, all skill levels welcome.

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Cello on the River at The Forks
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Cello on the River at The Forks

Winnipeg Waterways turns a one-hour Red River cruise into a floating recital on October 19, 2026, with Brazilian cellist Gabriel Barbosa playing a 45-minute solo set aboard a boat departing from The Forks.

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Glory: Rivulettes Play at PTE
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Glory: Rivulettes Play at PTE

Tracey Power's swing-and-slapshot play about the Preston Rivulettes, Canada's most dominant women's hockey team, opens at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg on October 20, 2026.

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Dark Stories of Saint-Boniface
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Dark Stories of Saint-Boniface

Tourisme Riel's Dark Stories of Saint-Boniface walking tour returns October 17, 2026, leading guests after dark through Winnipeg's francophone quarter to hear true tales of unsolved murders, fires and scandals.

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Haunted Forest at Lucky Break
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Haunted Forest at Lucky Break

The Haunted Forest at Lucky Break Ranch in Rivers, Manitoba is a walk-through charity haunt born after Grim Acres closed.

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Pumpkins After Dark at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Pumpkins After Dark at

Pumpkins After Dark brings more than 10,000 hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns to Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg from October 15 to 31, 2026.

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Ghost Tours at Lower Fort Garry
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Ghost Tours at Lower Fort Garry

Manitoba's most haunted fort opens its stone walls after dark for the Friends of Lower Fort Garry's Ghost Walking Tours, running Friday and Saturday nights through October 2026.

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Six Pines Family Flashlight Haunt
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Six Pines Family Flashlight Haunt

Six Pines Haunted Attractions in Rosser, Manitoba opens its haunted houses to families and younger kids for a no-actors, bring-your-own-flashlight Family Ghoul Flashlight Haunt on select October afternoons, including October 17, 2026.

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ATV Poker Derby at Camp Hughes
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

ATV Poker Derby at Camp Hughes

The Westman ATV Association's third annual Poker Derby sends riders out from Camp Hughes, west of Carberry, on Saturday, October 17, 2026, collecting poker hands along a roughly 70-kilometre route.

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Reading Volcanoes in the Rocks
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Reading Volcanoes in the Rocks

A UBC volcanologist brings forensic geology to Brandon University, showing how ancient lava flows in British Columbia's Coast Mountains can tell us what the next eruption might do.

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Four Decades of Harvest
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Four Decades of Harvest

For 47 years, the Rotary Club of Portage la Prairie has turned a parking lot into a drive-through vegetable stand, raising money for the community one 50-pound bag at a time.

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Harvest for the Hungry
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Harvest for the Hungry

For decades, prairie farmers have turned a single field of canola into food for the world's hungriest — and this fall, the Boissevain-Morton-Whitewater community invites everyone to pull up a chair before the combines roll.

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Combines for a Cause
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Combines for a Cause

For eighteen years, farmers near Fairfax have donated a half-section of canola to fight global hunger. On October 9, the combines roll again — and everyone is invited to lunch first.

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Veggies for 47 Years
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Veggies for 47 Years

For nearly half a century, the Rotary Club of Portage la Prairie has turned a parking lot into a drive-through harvest — and this year's sale lands in the club's 75th anniversary season.

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The Voice in the Wax: Jeremy
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

The Voice in the Wax: Jeremy

A Polaris and JUNO winner who turned 1907 wax-cylinder field recordings into a landmark album comes to Brandon University for a free morning of talk on language, archives and Indigenous resurgence.

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One Billion Backs: Winnipeg's
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

One Billion Backs: Winnipeg's

A free, drop-in celebration of spinal health lands at the meeting place where the Red and Assiniboine rivers have drawn people together for 6,000 years.

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Where the Night Still Belongs
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Where the Night Still Belongs

Spruce Woods kicks off its Park After Dark weekend with the story of how a corner of southwestern Manitoba became the province's first dark-sky preserve.

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Pedaling Through the Prairies
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Pedaling Through the Prairies

Habitat for Humanity Manitoba's Cycle of Hope brings cyclists through southern Manitoba for the first time in three decades, with a free community ride and build-site gathering in Morden.

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A New Kind of Shop Floor
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

A New Kind of Shop Floor

After spotting a Facebook ad, Abe Sawatzky is birthing Steinbach's first Men's Shed chapter — a Thursday morning gathering where retired and transitioning men can connect, share skills, and build friendships in a low-barrier, drop-in space.

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Perogies, Sausage, and Eight
Weekly Highlight Sep 14–21, 2026

Perogies, Sausage, and Eight

On a Thursday evening in September, Steinbach residents can trade a $20 donation for a plate of perogies and farmer sausage — and help HavenGroup keep an 80-year promise to the community's elders.

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Sweet Sixteen: A Manitoba
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Sweet Sixteen: A Manitoba

For sixteen years, the farmers and families of Killarney, Manitoba have planted, tended, and harvested a crop not for themselves, but for strangers half a world away — and this year's 'Sweet Sixteen' celebration promises to be their most meaningful yet.

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Bees, Stars, and Blue and Gold
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Bees, Stars, and Blue and Gold

Brandon University's annual Homecoming weekend returns September 11-14 with milestone reunions, rooftop beehive tours, stargazing atop McMaster Hall, and Bobcats soccer.

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The Ace That Wouldn't Fall: How
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

The Ace That Wouldn't Fall: How

After a summer hiatus, La Broquerie Helping Hands' Chase the Ace returns September 10 with a $274,070 jackpot and just seven cards left in the deck.

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Floating Away Into Sound: Paddle
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

Floating Away Into Sound: Paddle

A Brandon-based wellness company transforms the Altona Aquatic Centre into a floating sanctuary on September 2.

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A Clinic on Wheels: Bringing
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Clinic on Wheels: Bringing

FYidoctors' custom-built mobile eye clinic and the Manitoba Association of Optometrists teamed up on Children's Vision Day to offer walk-in eye exams, a community barbecue, and the promise that no child would start school unable to see the blackboard.

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A Weekend of Holy Expectation
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Weekend of Holy Expectation

At the crossroads of biblical promise and Prairie faith, Winnipeg's The Way Tabernacle Ministry prepares for a three-day gathering built on Isaiah's ancient cry that salvation is on its way.

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A Symphony in the Sky
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

A Symphony in the Sky

Two nights, two designers, one provincial first — and a rural youth drop-in centre at the heart of it all.

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When Fireworks Dance to Music
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

When Fireworks Dance to Music

Two nights, two designers, one provincial showdown — and a sky full of fireworks choreographed to music, all in support of a rural youth drop-in centre.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Hundreds of Rubber Ducks, One Wild Ride: The Big Duck Race Makes Its Annual Splash in Portage

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains sends hundreds of numbered rubber ducks down the Splash Island waterslides on August 27, raising money for youth mentoring in the region.

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Hundreds of Rubber Ducks, One
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Hundreds of Rubber Ducks, One

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains sends hundreds of numbered rubber ducks down the Splash Island waterslides on August 27, raising money for youth mentoring in the region.

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Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Splash Worth Waiting All

On the last Saturday of August, the city hands its beloved wading pool to its four-legged residents for a final, free swim before the season closes.

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Yellow Tide: The Big Duck Race
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Yellow Tide: The Big Duck Race

Hundreds of rubber ducks will ride the lazy river at Splash Island on August 27, raising funds for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains in one of the region's most beloved and delightfully chaotic traditions.

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